34—1850.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
cows, pigs 2 and 8 eat Turnips, Barley w eee e making, filling up pits, draining, eradicating old fences, 
I . “ page 
ne eee W urzel this year failed in 
many 5 partly fro 
3 yy 15 e seen an excellent crop 
t — a able ie ee, a plough, a Mie 
oxen or hors 
bt, pai w attached 22 to 
ration of farm . 
are passing u 
The “plough is all wrong, 
magine by whom made, save 
resentations of our implements of pe 
added; but I really think that we who live in 
the“ gear 
ery good land, as 
4 2 Wi hittington, 
appearance o 
effects last. C. A. A 
‘Memoranda. 
FARMING aT SRI felt the more satisfacti 
on reading the details on high as it is douse’, 
by Mr. Baker in his address to te London Farmers! 
Club, as they 8 my 
own practice. age T differ with bin te, 
such as devoting t the whe of the farm: yard man manure to 
the 
N 
T shall presently 
prac erse ; but most of all ae I object to 
his rotation of cropping, where he speaks of taking O: 
or Barley after 
in 
e 
tails of the, operation to o Now, my erns of 
management is this : I follow a ro rotation of five on some 
sown wi 
for the most heep ; 
or Oats, Beans, ieee, WB 
the | farm- green e 
of pe or bones, "No doubt a good fair crop of Tur 
tal 
ores ate wrongly 
on t | of 
and to the advantages it offers = a pecuniary invest- | 
i service to the cause of 3 0 
s pair 
of a fais depth, and 
| 8 and seeds mown 
eat aft 
in give the 22 ot my grain crops a stimulus of 2 ewt. 
ruvian gap and apply my age of my 
— rops, wi een 
nips ma; 
the —— 
he yards until the 
bout the Ist of May, when it is loosely thrown 
pear ted to the green crops 
I have about 800 
5 f. 
evote ra one and 
two year old G icester 
flock, until about thn. * of November, when the ewes 
are sent on pasture for the winter, the hogs an 
others put on weber, and the 1 9 * the | & 
tra Mr. Mec 
straw y now not whether and 
other f i 
system igh ox. w farming, 
5 gee I er pos readily backed 100 acres of Tur- 
of Swed — and Northumberland | 
Globes, against any hindret » i i i 
s possession, I 2 60 com 
dia this pay? The p 
summer is, in this ¢ afn * about 13s. per qr. of 40 
e | per bushel—8d. per bushel additional for = above that 
weight. kaz ey, 53 lbs. per bus 
3 r bushel above that we ae 
a quarter of 
ad- 
Wheat 30s, 
2 lbs. per — e es 
I 
n | bu shel” above that —.— The farm 
rain 
lies three yore and every year, but has two 
“pra e dung, or or — ewp that time. Th 
farm has ere 3 not a vi e of any old 
fence re — — thorn fences have ve been planted, 
dee — are well kept. The fields 
oblong square, with poo! 3 each 
vill gece four fiel — tant —— y of water 
he drainage into in aar- The ditches and 5 
— are e —— — and cart 
ths, styles, farm yards, riremi in poke er 
The s following ' is — ght worthy of recording, 
ugh no premiu 33 here is very 
— merit in the cu cultivation of the farm, and 
— e respects pecu So far as the arable part, 
quite equal to Mr, Ov oats s taper but a little deficient in 
the Grass part. It owned and oceupied by 
J. I. er kburne, Esq., of Hal e hall; the farm is within 
the park, and under th ` 
It consists of a lies on 
ersey, 1 iles 
1 A. every p 
afford nen Tal for — 
The soil i is — loam, and the subsoil 
on some parts san — wat on other A clay an 
In 1849 was cultivated as follow 
. R. 
ld meadow and Pasture ac 4 e 
Wai —— 1 mown see au eee soc a, oe 
Whea otatoes oo 8 0 0 
do. 1 — — Beans 1 A i 
Oats after ley Pert ees si Bh RAD 
Barley after Turnips, de. 2 12.0.6 
Beans 0 
a Vetches a, $ 0 
Pota 1 
38 tir Pe 0 
0 
0 
Beet 2 
Carrots sand Cabbage 2 
Hom: roads, e. vie Ste — „ at Oe 
236 0 0 0 0 
The rotation 8 is be Oats after Clover or 
drills ; 
ge ough ing * and pa se ho applica cation of 2 ¢ 
s. per acre more 
than ren 
dice, in Bells Weekly Mes. 
omg Owen’s Farm, near Liv 
rm, Lower h erpoo 
ns 153 acres. The soil strong brown loam 
resting on a ee api subsoil. 
a slight inclination to ast, an 
above the sea, = rhaps 50 feet. This year it is occupied 
in the followi 
Old meadow and pasture 15 F very —— and elean. 
. 68 2 dit ditto. 
ips 32 2 very peti & clean crop. 
. 20 0 ditto ditto. 
Sain after Ley, 5 
o. do. Wheat 13 „ 
Potatoes, 7A. 1R. 
ram, p Green Crops 18 2 exceedingly clean and 
oe and Garden .. 1 2 well kept and 1 
Homestead and roads. 1 2 * order and n 
Rotation of erops, Ist Potatoes, Turn ps, and Bee 
Grass or Oats; 2d, 
Clover and Grass seeds ; 
Gr 
y, 
oes, Beet, r and a little 
bah: path is made o! arm 
ev ear, W N to the Potato, 
Turnip, and — Wurzel mope ; and the remainder 
tom tons of oe pjes at 
angaa exclusive of carting. 
rained 
ied to he meadows. d 
entered pat a it, years 
2 
8 
Er 
H 
the whole = e farm since 
of 10 acres a year. The 
Ada anart 3 
E 
— 6 5 feet deep. The a S 
d | open stone drains, aaa the parallel ones filled ys foot 
pen 
with cinders. The whole cost al ut 71. 
14 acres have been marled with 100 cubic — pee 
acre. The general improvements have been road 
VERPOOL.—Mr. Owen’s by 
ouse, West Derby, near Liv. 1, 
The 
and the ehh nag nee 
ng | i improved short- 
ley mae 5 valves, 100 sheep, 
he horses are fed on steamed food 
been 
drains from 3 to 5 feet deep. 
siderable portion of the land is old Grass, ar occupied 
ing stock. 
po ri by breaking g up, and u 
„doubt but 
i a ag Rothwelt’s Poeren of Lancashire. 
ellaneo 
Agricultura Schools, 2 the 
=e 
Farm 
n — Herald” of January, 1844, te the 
a 
Soe accou the management adopted: ail 
arm in this county, upon the principle of 8 green 
2 Grasses, without any grain. It is oceupied 
as à small eee school, and is 4 in the 
ebe of Orre 
securi the same — 
3 mrs I insert it not only as an 
— — daaviog 
example of superior 
